Water-motor.



1. CHARLES.

WATER MOTOR.

APPLlCATlON FILED NOV. I6. 1918.

1,296,622. Patented Mar. 11,1919.

4 ED STATES .iAM s owns, or RICHMOND, INDIANA.

WATER-MOTOR.

' make and use the same with exactitude.

1 The object of my present invention, broadly stated, is to produce a water motor capable of developing a maximum amount of power with a minimum amount of water applied thereto, and to provide such a motor at a comparatively low cost, and capable of being operated with a high degree of efliciency.

More specifically stated my object is to providea water motor in which the wheel is provided with vanes or blades of novel constructlon and arrangement, whereby the water under pressure when it impacts the vanes will be given a lateral zig zag motion, thereby exerting a compound wedge-like movement to propel the wheel until the entire force of the water is spent, all of which power will be delivered to rotate the wheel.

Other subsidiary objects and advantages of the invention will suggest themselves to the hydrodynamic engineer in the course of the following specification, and that which is new will be correlated in the claims.

. c The preferred means for carrying out the principles of this invention in a thoroughly eflicient and mechanical manner is shown in the.:accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1. is an edgewise elevation of my motor. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section, as

1 taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the nozzle which delivers r 4 is a'perspective water under pressure to the wheel. And Fig. view of one of the several vanes or paddles, which are all identical with each other.

Similar indices denote like parts throughout the several-views.

In order that the principles and the construction of my invention may be better understood I will now take up a detailed description of one means for the embodiment of the principles involved, but the invention is not to be limited to such details of arrangement. I

In the drawings numeral .1 denotes the body or hub portion of the wheel, the same Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 16, 1918. Serial No. 262,791.

: The said vanes are formed of comparatively j Patented Mar. 11, 1919.

being in the nature of'a drum or cylinder which is mounted on an axis or shaft 2, which 7 i ls-concentric thereof. v

Pro]e'ct1ng out from around each end'of the hub 1, and rigid therewith, are the flanges 3 and 4: whereby a comparativelydeep channel is formed entirely around the periphery of the hub or body 1 and between the space I formed by the flanges 3 and 4. Numeral 5 denotes a frame which in-this instance is secured to the base-6 and extends upward therefrom and within which the said wheel s located. Said frame is provided with boxlngs or bearings 7 and 8 in which'the shaft 2 is revolubly mounted. Secured on the outwardly extending projection of the shaft 2 1s the pulley 9 from which power may be taken in the usual'manner.

Spaced an equal distance apart and extend 'out from around the periphery of the 1 are a plurality of vanes or blades 10.

thin suitable material, such for'instance as sheet metal, andapproximately one-half of the body of each is straight, while the 'remain der thereof is curved at a right-angle to the other portion, whereby the extreme end part of the curved portion is at right-angles to the straight portion. A; small right-angular flange a projects from the extreme end part of the straight portion in which there are screw apertures a, and also screw apertures a" are formed in the extreme end part of the curved portion. Also a flange 7; pro- .jects from the inner edge of each blade :10,

and it has a plurality of screw formed therethrough. 7

The ends of each vane are adapted to be secured to theiinner or opposing faces of the flanges 3 and 4 by means of screws inserted in the apertures a and a, and each vane is adapted to be secured to the periphery of the body or hub portion 1 of the wheel by means of screws inserted in the apertures b.

Said vanes or blades are located staggered or alternating right and left, that is to say: The end a of the straight portion of each alternate vane is secured to the flange 3,

apertures 25' while the other or end part of the curved dent that this arrangement permits the end tothe left, altern tely, as the wheel re- VQlVQS. The race-way, the flanges 12 and of the curved portion of each vane to adjoin the end of the, straight portion of the vane next thereto, thereby forming in reality a continuous vane entirely around the bodyor hub 1 and between the flanges 3' and 4.

Supported by the base 6 is a race forthe wheel, the same being formed with its surface curved to correspond somewhatwith the curvature ofthe' wheel, and it is denoted as the portion 11, with flanges l2 and 13 prodjecting up between and near to the respective fla g 3: Numeral 14L denote a nozzle havingan. elongated narrow mo t 15. Said nozzle rests on the member 11, as shown atthele t in Eig.v 2,1with said mouth near toand d r ct d toward the blades 10 t the lower porti n of: h heel, as sho n.

It is no evident tha the water may be aus d; o enter hro gh th n zz .4 a d issue f he; mouth 15 in a horizontal ribbon under high pressure, and it will be aused o mpinge-the anes or blades 10 c ssively, first s riking the flat-portion and then pnSS ngwedge-like over the carved Por i n; moving first. to the right and then 13, and the flanges 3 and 4 of the Wheel re- I to take a longer course before it is released taining the water in close. contactwith the success v vanes. thereby eauslng the Water and he eby causing the wheel to revolve h high rate. of speed, or with a of power, and, causing every partic e o the acc mulated force of-thewater t be utilized driving the Wheelwith a gr at power hetore: the Water i fina y p rthrough,

mitted; to escape, as shown at. the, right in Fig In actual tests I have found: that when-the water is permitted to pass; straight as with ordinary vanes or buckets; and t.,.en With the ame amount of water pressure directed upon a wheel proided with vanes as set forth herein, that the Wheel would revolve. with much greater speed under the latter than under. the for- 1 conditions, thereby proving my theory to be correct.

Having now fully shown,- and; described my inyention, What I claim and desire. to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

1., A water motor including a wheel havinga cylindrical body, flanges extending V out from around theends of the body, vanes radiating from. the periphery of the body and connected With said flanges, oneportion 016; each vane beiing straight and the other portion being curved at rightangles: thereto, the curve, of each vane being located opposite to. the straight portion of the vane inga cylindrical body,

next thereto;

2., A Water motor-comprising a wheel havflanges projecting out, from; around the ends of the body, vanes radiating from the periphery of the body and connected with said flanges, one portion of each vane beingpara'llel with the axis of the body and the other portion of each vane being curved with the end part of the urved portion at right-angles to the axis of the body, the curved portion of each vane being on the opposite side, laterally, from that of the curved portion of each of the vanes next hereto,

3. A water motor having a wheel including a cylindrical body, flanges projecting out from around the ends of: the ody and concentric therewith, vanes radiating: trom the periphery of: the. bodyand contacting With said flanges, approximately one half of each vane-being parallel with the-axis. of the body and the other approximate onelf of each ane being curved: with end p rtion at right: angles to the axis of the body, said vanes beingarranged staggered with relation to their positions on said body.

t. Awater motor comprising awheel having side flanges forming a channel around the periphery of the. body of the wheel, a

plurality of vanes located; in said channel and; equally spaced apart, each of said vanes being secured to the body of the wheel and to; said flanges, the vanesbeing arranged to alternately extend straight firom one flange and then curve; at rightrangles tothe other flange With the end 01": the straight portion of each vane meeting" the. end of the: curved portion of the vane next thereto thereby forming a continuous vane, extending around the body of the wheel.

5. A water motor comprising a. Wheel having a. cylindrical body, flanges; radiating from the: ends of; the body, a, plurality of vanes radiating from around the: body with their ends v in contact with both of said flanges, each alternate vane, extendingfrom one of;- said flanges in a direct line toward the otherflange. fior approximately one-half its length and then curving at right-angles to a point where it contacts with the otherwheel and: located between said flanges,

flanges extending up from the base and located between andadjoining the flanges of the wheel, curved vanes carried by the body the ends of said vanes; being all connected together entirely around the body of V In testimony whereof I have hereunto subthe Wheel and approaching near the face of scribed my name to this specification in the the race, a'nozzle through which Water may presence of two subscribing witnesses.

he directed against the vanes with said noz- JAMES CHARLES. 5 zle located between the said flanges of the Witnesses: 7

base, and a pulley connected to said shaft, Ron'r. W. RANDLE,

all substantially as shown and described. R. E. RANDLE.

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